The Persistence of the Old Regime
Europe to the Great War
2nd Edition
Published on 2. August 2010
Book
Paperback/Softback
382 pages
978-1-84467-635-4 (ISBN)
Description
In this classic work which analyzes the context in which thirty years of war and revolution wracked the European continent, the great historian Arno Mayer emphasizes the backwardness of the European economies and their political subjugation by aristocratic elites and their allies. Mayer turns upside down the vision of societies marked by modernization and forward-thrusting bourgeois and popular social classes, thereby transforming our understanding of the traumatic crises of the early twentieth century.
Reviews / Votes
A seminal book-extremely challenging. The historical and political implications of the 'Mayer thesis' will be widely discussed in years to come-certainly not only by specialists. -- Carlo Ginzburg Academics like me often wield the term 'modernity' as if it describes a centuries-old formation, but the fact is: a great part of Europe only became modern-in the sense of being post-feudal-in recent memory. The best treatment of this theme remains Arno Mayer's The Persistence of the Old Regime. -- Corey RobinMore details
Series
Edition
2nd edition
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 155 mm
Thickness: 30 mm
Weight
611 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-84467-635-4 (9781844676354)
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Person
Arno Mayer is Professor Emeritus of European History at Princeton University. His books include The Furies: Violence and Terror in the French and Russian Revolutions, The Persistence of the Old Regime: Europe to the Great War, and Why Did the Heavens Not Darken? The 'Final Solution' in History.